Arts & Culture | Theater

War Rages Inside, And Outside, Hotel Room

06/27/2012 | Ted Merwin | Special To The Jewish Week | Theater

A Stage For Jewish Renewal

06/19/2012 | Ted Merwin | Special To The Jewish Week | Theater

David Winitsky is a theater artist with a mission. In an era in which most of the Jewish repertory companies in New York have folded for lack of support, he views theater written by and for Jews as still essential to the revitalization of the Jewish community.

Labor Pains

06/13/2012 | Ted Merwin | Special To The Jewish Week | Theater

Its premiere was a watershed in American theatrical history, galvanizing an audience caught in the throes of the Great Depression.

Jews And Hues

06/05/2012 | Ted Merwin | Special To The Jewish Week | Theater

Colorblind people see the world in a different way. In Jessica Fleitman’s “Deuteranomaly,” now playing at the Planet Connections Theater Festivity, a Jewish family struggles with a son’s visual deficit. Based on the scientific term for a relatively mild form of colorblindness — which affects mostly men, making it difficult for them to distinguish between red and green — “Deuteranomaly” uses the boy’s condition as a metaphor for the flaws in human relationships.

Simmering On The West Bank

05/29/2012 | Ted Merwin | Special To The Jewish Week | Theater

Food sums up the culture and history of a people. Just ask the Palestinian family in Lameece Issaq and Jacob Kader’s seriocomic new play, “Food and Fadwa,” which opens Off-Broadway in the East Village next week. Even as they struggle with life in the West Bank under the Israeli occupation, the family remains bound together by the food that they prepare and eat together. The groundbreaking production is the first by the Noor Theatre Company, an Arab-American collective sponsored by the New York Theatre Workshop.

The Ghost Of Bubby's Past

05/22/2012 | Ted Merwin | Special To The Jewish Week | Theater

How deeply do we have to bury the past to keep it from erupting into the present? In Andrew Rothkin’s “Bubby’s Shadow,” in which the playwright also stars, the spirit of a deceased grandmother reunites a deeply divided Jewish family and restores its connection to Judaism. The play, an earlier version of which ran Off Broadway in 2008, returns starting June 3 at a theater in the West Village.